Living According to Tolstoy
I haven’t read a hard book since high school, where they force fed me books such as The Catcher in…
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The President Who Destroyed the Klan: Ulysses S. Grant, An Unappreciated and Undervalued Leader
While President, Ulysses S. Grant destroyed the terrorizing Ku Klux Klan to protect the lives of the freed former slaves.…
Governmental Highway Robbery: Asset Forfeiture and the Pillaging of the American People
Long before Americans charted their revolutionary course in pursuit of happiness, it was “life, liberty, and property” which constituted the…
Russell Edson and the Strange Shape of Literature to Come
Like the character of the toy maker, Edson constructs his own worlds with parts of thoughts and feelings. His worlds…
Morning on Three Sides and Other Poems
Mornings. Like heaven. It's morning on three sides now Windows all around I love my old quilt Wrapped around me…
Reimagining Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) was the highly criticised, and often ignored, Science Fiction film that initiated a new…
Poems by Jonas Sidell
Jonas Sidell returns to Gadfly with two more poems: lamenting, peering inward, a reflection on the stripped down feeling that…
Happy Xmas: Ten Great Christmas Albums
After endless months of being mired in gloom and doom, we now find ourselves just a few weeks away from…
Waiting
I was tried. I was sentenced. A charge of murder had been brought against me. The Dueling Laws had, unknown…
The Fight Against the Total Surveillance State in Our Schools
The battle playing out in San Antonio, Texas, over one student’s refusal to comply with a public school campaign to…